In an effort to improve efficiency, Eastern Michigan University's
auxiliary budget operations will merge with general fund
budget operations and become the office of University budgets.
"Student affairs and business and finance are coming together
in an effort to do business better and streamline processes," said
Steve Holda, interim director of finance for EMU.
Auxiliary budget operations were previously housed under
student affairs and were the responsibility of Jim Vick,
vice president for student affairs. Vicki Bagherzadeh,
who was in charge of auxiliary budgeting, will now oversee
both groups and report to Holda. Only budget operations
of auxiliaries, not the programming areas, will report
to Holda.
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Holda said Bagherzadeh will become director of University
budgeting.
"One of the benefits of this arrangement is that Al Levett,
director of budget management, will now be free to work
on special projects," said Holda.
Holda said that would include leading the University's
effort to develop an integrated multi-year budgeting model.
"This is a great opportunity for the University. We could
likely see some organizational synergies that will develop
from this. We're excited about it," Vick said
The nine employees who will be impacted by the
change will be housed in Hover.
"We have less financial and personnel resources, and we have
to find ways to do things better," Holda said. "It's a matter
of revolution vs. evolution regarding the changes we need
to make in how we do business at EMU."
